Parcel Taxes 190719

"Personally I would be ok with a $378 annual parcel tax"
Sure, it started out as just $53, went up to $73, now $378?
How high can it go?
San Carlos Education Foundation asks for $1500 per child every year.
That would be $3000 per year if you have two kids in school.

ballotpedia says:
In 2013, all FUSD employees including all administrators received an one-time 4% (relative to their salaries) payment and a 2% salary raise retroactive back to 2012. In 2014, all employees received a 5.9% salary increase. In 2015, the salary increase is 5%. There is another salary negotiation underway this year for the 4th consecutive year. Measure I money would be used to mostly offset routine and normal FUSD expenses.

https://edsource.org/2019/voters-in-la-soundly-reject-parcel-tax-for-schools/613344

Setting back efforts to restore Los Angeles Unified to financial health, voters have decisively rejected a tax on real estate which would have raised approximately $500 million annually for the state’s largest school district.

With 100 percent of precincts reporting at 1 a.m. Wednesday, Measure EE won only 45.68 percent of the vote, with 54.32 percent against. That was more than 20 percentage points less than the two-thirds majority the parcel tax measure needed for passage.

The measure, which would have been in effect for 12 years, would have imposed a tax of 16 cents per square foot of interior space on residential and commercial property. The owner of a 2,000 square-foot-house would have paid $320 a year.

The overwhelming defeat of the measure represents a major setback to teachers and many other backers of the measure, including the Los Angeles school board and Mayor Eric Garcetti. The board voted unanimously in February to put Measure EE on the ballot in the wake of a teachers’ strike that attracted significant public support. The board commissioned a survey earlier this year that showed that more than two-thirds of respondents said they would support a 16 cents per square foot parcel tax.

“Yesterday, Los Angeles voters showed us they want absolute accountability and oversight when asked to approve impactful tax increases like Measure EE,” said Maria Salinas, president and CEO of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce.

The anti-measure statement in the ballot read in part: “DON’T BE FOOLED. Money from the tax won’t add resources to classrooms. It will be used to temporarily fix a budget deficit and to pay for LAUSD’s over-promised pension and health insurance costs.”

Tuesday’s vote marked the second time since 2010 that the district had failed to pass a parcel tax. The 2010 measure received less than 53 percent of voter support.

https://mk0edsource0y23p672y.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/publications/pub13-ParcelTaxesFinal.pdf

Despite sustained efforts to reduce unequal revenues among California school districts, inequities remain for a variety of reasons, including differences in revenues generated from federal programs and local fundraising efforts.

One pitfall of the potentially greater usage of the parcel tax is that it could exacerbate these inequities.

Districts taking advantage of parcel taxes are overwhelmingly based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Nearly half of all districts with parcel taxes are in just three Bay Area counties (Santa Clara, San Mateo, and Marin).

More than one-third of districts with parcel taxes are “basic aid” districts, which are among the wealthier school districts in the state.

Parcel taxes typically generate a small percentage of total spending in school districts that have parcel taxes (an average of 6%).